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Kent C. Berridge
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 225
Citations - 55142
Kent C. Berridge is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Incentive salience & Nucleus accumbens. The author has an hindex of 99, co-authored 222 publications receiving 50859 citations. Previous affiliations of Kent C. Berridge include University of Pennsylvania & University of California, San Diego.
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The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction
TL;DR: S sensitization of incentive salience can produce addictive behavior even if the expectation of drug pleasure or the aversive properties of withdrawal are diminished and even in the face of strong disincentives, including the loss of reputation, job, home and family.
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What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience?
TL;DR: It is suggested that dopamine may be more important to incentive salience attributions to the neural representations of reward-related stimuli and is a distinct component of motivation and reward.
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The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: the case for incentive salience
TL;DR: Dopamine’s contribution appears to be chiefly to cause ‘wanting’ for hedonic rewards, more than ‘liking’ or learning for those rewards.
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Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking
TL;DR: Evidence from many sources is reviewed regarding both the psychological structure of food reward and the neural systems that mediate it and it is argued that this evidence suggests the following surprising possibilities regarding the functional components and brain substrates of food Reward.
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Dissecting components of reward: 'liking', 'wanting', and learning.
TL;DR: Findings on three dissociable psychological components of reward: 'liking' (hedonic impact), 'wanting' (incentive salience), and learning (predictive associations and cognitions) are highlighted.